calenture
Example Sentences
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The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
X. has one good story, and with that I leave him, wishing him with all my heart that little inland farm at last which is his calenture as he paces the windy deck.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
Sweetheart, I can write unto you but with a weak hand, for I have suffered the most violent calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.
From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Eva March Tappan
